> My first thought would be that your vim package is set up to advertise itself
> as providing an acceptable substitute for the vim-nox package. Thus, when
> puppet asks your package manager "do you have the vim-nox package installed?"
> it says "sure!"
It doesn't look like it. Perusing the code for the provider, it looks
like it uses this command to test for the presence of "vim-nox":
# /usr/bin/dpkg-query -W --showformat '${Status} ${Package}
${Version}\n' vim-nox
purge ok not-installed vim-nox
# /usr/bin/dpkg-query -W --showformat '${Status} ${Package} ${Version}\n' vim
install ok installed vim 1:7.1-138+1ubuntu3
As you can see, it admits it is not installed.
Despite this, running "puppetd --test --debug" shows prefetching the
package list and then no attempt to install vim-nox. No mention of
> You don't say which package manager you're using, so this is purely
> speculation,
> but it would be simple enough to create a manifest to test this out.
I'm using the "aptitude" provider.
> package { "vim-purge":
> name => "vim",
> ensure => absent
> }
> package { "vim":
> name => "vim-nox",
> ensure => installed,
> require => Package["vim-purge"]
> }
Excellent suggestion. That, of course, fixed the problem.
It's still not clear to me why this happened, which is going to annoy
me for a bit.
Thanks!
-Ben
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